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Iraq says closing the Strait of Hormuz would reduce its oil exports for the half
[6:40] 12/Feb/21
Erbil, Feb. 21 (PNA) - said Ali Shukri and the Iraqi Minister of Planning said on Monday that Iraq has lost more than half of its oil exports if neighboring Iran closed the Strait of Hormuz is vital, adding that there is no immediate alternative to compensate for this shortfall.
Of the 2.165 million barrels per day is the average Iraqi exports last year were exported around 1.7 million barrels per day from the ports of Basra to the Gulf through the Strait of Hormuz.
Said Shukri, told Reuters in an interview that Iraq is of concern to his governors would lose more than half of its oil exports in the event of closure of the Straits and the country today are trying to search for alternatives to oil exports.
And entered Iran in the dispute for a long time with the West over its nuclear program and repeatedly threatened to close the Strait of Hormuz if sanctions succeeded in preventing them from exporting its oil, a move that Washington says it will not be tolerated.
Shukri said that Iraq could depend on export more oil through the trucks and can enhance its exports through the northern pipeline that carries oil from the fields north of the country to the Turkish port of Ceyhan on the Mediterranean to one million barrels per day of 400 thousand bpd.
But he said that hasty solutions may not accommodate the country's export capacity.
And subjected the Kirkuk - Ceyhan to sabotage attacks several times since the US-led invasion of Iraq in 2003 and frequently interrupted due to technical problems.
Last year, Jordanian and Iraqi officials said the two countries agreed in principle to set up a pipeline supplying crude oil to Jordan in the coming decades.
And transmits Iraq currently has about 15 thousand barrels per day of crude oil in the trucks to Jordan.
Shukri said it might conduct a study of long-term plans such as inviting foreign companies to rehabilitate an oil pipeline between Iraq and the port of Banias in Syria and the tube is turned off from work for nearly three decades.
But the unrest in Syria, make it unlikely that there will be immediate attention to re-run the line.
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